China_Report_Issue_51_August_2017

0 30 60 90 120 150 bynumbers china 130% about 28 million 20.5% 82% us$275 billion Year-on-year increase in China’s barley import ...

I t has been more than a month since the confrontation between Indian and Chi- nese troops started on June 16 along the Sikkim-T ...

have retracted their official acceptance of the Anglo-Chinese convention of 1890, nor have they made alternative territorial cla ...

boundary.” In response to In- dia’s concerns that China’s activities in the Doklam region pose a security threat to its vulnerab ...

it was unable to make the final decision given India’s objection. In 2007, Bhutan signed a new friendship treaty with India, whi ...

O n the sidelines of the G20 sum- mit held in Hamburg, Germany on July 7, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Indian Prime Min ...

couple of years has been the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an ambitious project to boost economic cooperation and connectiv- i ...

railways and highways, not only in China’s prosperous coastal area, but also its border re- gions including the Himalayan fronti ...

Asia. For example, India has spent over US$1.75 billion in grants and credit to Myanmar, a major competition ground between the ...

HI sTORY R isking his entire career and even freedom in the US, Robert Carl Cohen, a 27-year-old director from Philadelphia, set ...

Photos shot by Cohen in his 1957 visit to China: a dashing police officer patrolling the “Shanghai Great World,” an entertainmen ...

HI sTORY Zhou made a principle for the hospitality – “seeking sameness but keeping difference” and ordered that the guests’ requ ...

intently on the teaching, for their imprisonment might be shortened if they could demonstrate their familiarity with and loyalty ...

C ULTURE E ddie Peng Yu-yen was fifteen minutes early for the interview. He was wearing a light-grey T-shirt and black jeans, sh ...

Let Go “I would never have imagined that Ann Hui would invite me to be in her film. This is a great honour for me,” Peng told Ch ...

C ULTURE work with different emotions. “When we ate together, he would talk to me about the script and help me study it so I cou ...

realistic portrayal of an MMA fighter earned him nominations as Best Supporting Actor at the 33rd Hong Kong Film Award and 50th ...

vIsUAL REPORT BitCoin miners On the night shift, Kun’s younger brother finds a machine working poorly. He fixes it by hooking it ...

In the past few years, villagers in the remote mountainous regions deep in western China have found themselves involved in one o ...

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